I’m new to your channel, your videos are great and detailed, I can fully understand not only the methods but the thought processes, and it’s not they generic tips that everyone recycles. Wish your videos find a wider crowd. Great work 👍🏾
Hi Alex, you have such a great way of explaining things. Please keep these videos coming! Quick question, when using sends for effects and additional processing, would you also send those effects to the parallel mix bus? Is it safe to assume anything that would go to your mix bus would also go to the parallel bus? Thanks
Thank you ever so much for watching these videos, I am very grateful to you for being here and I am super pleased they are helping you! And yes, you’re quite right that my “go to” setup is to have everything that my mix bus is seeing is also going to the parallel mix bus compressor. However, it’s not always the case. When I am assessing my tracks before I start to mix, I always ask myself what my parallel mix bus needs to help with. Am I just trying to add overall density, steadiness and impact (in which case probably everything is going there) or am I trying to make certain things be ‘bigger’. So a good example of this would be if I have a track that has some clear dynamic differences. Imagine a verse with just a cello and an acoustic guitar, but the chorus is massive with drums, distorted guitar and some samples. I may omit the strings and acoustic guitar, to make sure that when the chorus hits it’s just massive, and the verse stays calm and relaxed. In that case, I will quite possibly send the track to the parallel mix bus directly from the tracks themselves, being selective about what gets the extra density it provides.
Hi Alex! well done! brilliant explanations, i've watched a tone of parallel comp videos and you still bring something to the table...i love your appproach to this... so Good. Great encouragement to continue!
Ah, yes! Good question! Setting up the Parallel mix bus can be varied, depending on what I am trying to do with my session. However, I do have a great “go to” setup, which is to route all my instruments to sub-group buses. So drums all go to the drum bus, the guitars all go to the guitar bus, etc. Then, from these main buses I will send them to the Parallel Mix compressor. I also group my effects next to my instruments sections a lot. So my drums will have its own reverb bus, which say kick, snare and overheads might go to, then all of that goes to the main Drum Bus, so the parallel mix bus receives the effects as well! I will try to put together a video on routing to parallel mix compressors so you can see these things in action!
